AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs ATI FireGL V8600

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500M and ATI FireGL V8600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1448 MHz vs 688 MHz
  • 13.1x more texture fill rate: 144.76 GT/s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 80 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3166 vs 839
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed 1448 MHz vs 688 MHz
Texture fill rate 144.76 GT/s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3166 vs 839

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V8600

  • Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 406 vs 336
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 406 vs 336

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500M
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V8600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3166
839
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
336
406
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500M ATI FireGL V8600
PassMark - G3D Mark 3166 839
PassMark - G2D Mark 336 406
Geekbench - OpenCL 38707
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11058
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11058
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3345
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4223

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5500M ATI FireGL V8600

Essentials

Architecture RDNA TeraScale
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 14 May 2007
Place in performance rating 389 363
Type Laptop Workstation
Code name R600
Launch price (MSRP) $1,899

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1645 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1448 MHz 688 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 80 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.26 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.63 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 52.6 GP/s
Stream Processors 1408
Texture fill rate 144.76 GT/s 11.01 GTexel / s
Transistor count 6400 million 720 million
Floating-point performance 440.3 gflops
Pipelines 320
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 159 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 254 mm

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 111.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 512 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR4
Memory clock speed 1736 MHz

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

API support

DirectX 10.0
OpenGL 3.3